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    "id": 836057,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang'",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I wish to appreciate the benevolence of Sen. Olekina who has sponsored this Motion, which is the kind of stuff that we should be discussing in this Senate. I support this Motion. I also take note that Kenya’s position in the world economic forum travel and tourism competitiveness index is 80 out of 136. That is not something we need to be proud of yet tourism contributes about 90 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). That is even bigger than what the insurance industry contributes to the GDP because the insurance sector is just about 2 per cent of the GDP. This means that we must do everything to improve Kenya’s position. The Mover of the Motion has cited technology as one of those things that can help us to improve this ranking. Whenever we travel to other countries, you will find most often Members using online tools like Booking.com to identify their accommodation or Airbnb. All these are online tools that have grown by leaps and bounds because they offer some relevance to the people that use them. I urge the Kenya Tourism Board (KTB), in pursuit of improvement of that index, that an investment in technology will not be wasted and it will help our country to be much more visible. It will also help to profile a lot of our cultural heritage and sites. The other day I found a young man working for the KTB at the airport. He was sitting there with booklets, pamphlets and giveaways. When you look at them, they are all about images of the Maasai Mara and our coast. In some countries like Australia, for example, when you go to Gold Coast which is in eastern Australia, they have much more wonderful beaches than we have here in Kenya. We must change the narrative. If we want tourists to come here, we must offer more than sand and the Sun because there are countries that have these. In my mind, there are certain things that are unique to Kenya. In my home County of Homa Bay, in Ruma National Park, we have an antelope that is found nowhere else in The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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